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Growing up he avoided status symbols, even smoking, unsure of what his self-control would be like as he worked frantically, and desperately, to make it out of Portland. A lot’s changed since then, including some of his reservations. “It has really calmed down my anxiety and my paranoia.” “Once I accomplished the dream of becoming a musician, a lot of weight kind of came off of my shoulders, and I kind of just wanted to try it for the first time,” he says on a call from Los Angeles, a week before his new album was set to drop on August 7. These days, the 26-year-old rapper smokes to get away from the feelings at the center of Limbo, his long-awaited sophomore album.

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It’s from the viewpoint of new adulthood through a shattered window, cracked by failed relationships, realizations about money, and discoveries about happiness. It’s also a large step for Aminé, born Adam Aminé Daniel, who first won teen hearts and ears by rapping about a “bad thang” that was “fine as hell” on his vibrant, charismatic debut single “ Caroline” in 2016. After signing with Republic Records that same year, he released an equally cheery debut album, Good for You, in 2017. The following year, he shared an “LP/EP/Mixtape/Album” ONEPOINTFIVE this summer saw him branch out to acting with a small role on Insecure, which arose from his friendship with Issa Rae, who’d appeared in his 2017 “Spice Girl” video. He’s now wiser, wearier, and eager to show people that despite having a gold album plaque under his belt and more than 10 million monthly listeners on Spotify around the world, he doesn’t actually have it all figured out. Recorded over the past two years, Limbo is a time capsule of the feelings, experiences, and personal thoughts that, up until now, Aminé was hesitant to reveal. Now he’s ready to explain his personal limbo - and why he believes he’s still stuck in it. Limbo is a fitting name for an album coming out right now when we’re all in limbo, in a sense, due to the pandemic. How long have you been sitting on that title? What’s fucking crazy is I had it for about a year and a half - way before this pandemic, before everything. Personally, I’m not a fan of being on the nose of things, of the times, or of anything, really, ever, so the title just kind of worked out in our favor when it came to the timing. I personally chose the title for completely different reasons. The album feels, and sounds, like the musings of a person that’s stuck in more ways than one. It came from an actual feeling that I’ve had for a long time. I had a bunch of titles in mind for this project that I had drafted up and had written for like two years. And I completely scrapped them, because by the end of making this album with my co-executive producer Pasque, we both agreed that no matter how much success we’ve reached with Good for You, or ONEPOINTFIVE, we’re still figuring it out.

I still feel like a college kid trying to become an adult right now.

When I was in high school, I thought that when I was 26, I would have kids, a wife, and a car. The way you think about life as a kid completely changes and morphs into who you end up becoming when you’re 26. It doesn’t mean it’s bad or good, it just … I don’t know. I still don’t know what I’m doing, and that’s what I really wanted fans to know. Because the idea of a celebrity, or a rapper, or whatever the hell it is, when you’re put on this pedestal, people expect you to know exactly what to say or to have the best advice. This album is for people to understand I’m literally a human. Rappers my age are putting out projects every other week. Some stay, but a lot of them come and go. What does “figuring it out” look like to you at this stage of your life? I want something that will last with people forever.

What would honestly bring me a lot of joy, as crazy as this sounds, is exactly what I talk about in the hook of “Woodlawn.” When I say, “You ain’t really on til all your niggas on,” it means I’ve reached a point in my life where I’m happy with what I’ve done with my career, and there’s still a lot more I want, but it would bring me a lot of joy to be able to put on family, to be able to put on friends. I have a little bit, but I haven’t fully done it the way I want it to be yet, because I’m not Michael Jackson, or Madonna, or that level at all yet. The break between Good for You and Limbo was three years. Was there any particular reason for the extended break? Of course there was ONEPOINTFIVE in the middle of it, but the true wait for your debut album’s follow-up was very long, in rap years. I needed this much time because the pressure of a sophomore album is real.